And No (A'ole)...

I will not stop using 'haole.' Would you dare ask another native peoples to stop using their language?

Oh wait-you already have.

How can I forget that you feast on hypocritically telling others how they should live, all the while plotting and scheming to overthrow their way of life. Let me consult the Native Americans, the Iraqi people, or the African-American.

You are a hypocrite when you push your lifestyle of fantasy and decadence in your commercials of the 'good life.' But never reveal the underbelly of its oppressive seediness it leaves behind, until it reveals itself in the end when it is too late.

You will not tell me that in the land of the free and the home of the brave, the land of freedom of speech and choice~that I cannot use my own language to describe you.

No, I will not 'teach' you or try to persuade you as to why its not a bad word. Go find out for yourself. You stress how much education one should have--an honorable deed on the surface.But I think this is yet another way for you to divide and alienate people--another shadow of classism. If education is so important, then educate yourself (!!) on native peoples of this world. Open your mind and discover the richness of cultures outside of your own. If you are so free as you proclaim (and are amongst peoples who aren't), then use your freedoms to learn rather than using it to suppress. What is your problem?

You will not make me to feel ashamed of speaking my language. I don't care what you say. You created nigger. You created chink. You created gook. You created kyke. You created faggot. You created jap. You bastardized good words in return, like pineapple and gay. And now you want to try and stop Hawaiians from using their words. For the record, haole is not like any of these words you created.

Hypocrite. Hewa!

You get offended because 'haole' represents a word that appropriately applies to you. You were a foreigner to us when you arrived. The word denotes many things:

1. You are no native to this 'aina. This pisses you off becaus eyou then cannot lay claim to this 'aina. Justice is not on your side. You realize that what you did to the Native Americans and the Eskimos cannot so easily be accomplished here. Your precedents is known, thus you cannot use the same tricks because your game has been uncovered and revealed;

2. You don't have the support of any (if not all) rational thinking people who have been colonized. You cannot so easily make us your enemy because most reasonable thinking people understand that to kill a language is to kill a people~that would be an outward appearing declaration of war against unarmed individuals~and we know you are al about appearances;

3. Vanity-pure and simple. 'Haole' is a word you didn't come up with. It's meaning is purposeful, apparent and powerful, and this angers you. You realize that as much as you tried to erase the Hawaiian culture and replace it with your homogonized version complete with how you 'saved the heathens from hell,' you couldn't.

We have thrived and have become educated under you watchful eye. All you have done is awakened a cunning native thathas alays been present, just dulled and sleeping.

You have awoken the Hawaiian Warrior within. Armed with your education and generations of maa. A'ole, haole. You do not win. You tried to kill us off by killing our language before. There is nothing new under the sun.

So why would you think that we'd be so slothful as to forget. You think that people's forget? You do, don't you? A'ole - YOU always forget. That's why you always recycle the same tactics. There is nothing new under the sun.

We remember. And we thrive.

So a'ole haole. As the native peoples of every country in every culture have somehow continued to grow and live, so will we. The nazi's couldn't kill the Jews. Neither could the Japanese exterminate the Okinawans.

Hawaiians will continue to teach and nourish our keiki with our Hawaiian-ness.And no haole, foreign or domestic, will hunder us.